Any fool, sick fascist, white supremacist, criminal or mentally ill weirdo can buy an assault rifle but books are banned!
Perspective
Perspective
Like an ant on a leaf
Contemplating what may be underneath.
Life is too brief.
Like a bacterium in a toilet bowl
Trying to fathom some higher goal;
Stuck in a minor role.
Life, life is so weird;
Stranger than we feared.
The universe is not geared;
Understanding is never neared.
Space is so vast
Though light is so fast
We see into the past
But it leaves us all aghast.
Like a moth around a light
Understanding the orbit of its flight
With all its might.
Like duckweed in a pond
Thinking about what may be beyond;
It can’t abscond.
Like a human in his small life
With work, child and wife;
The daily strife.
Looking for a purpose
Above the daily curse
That doesn’t make things worse.
Life, life is so weird;
Stranger than we feared.
The universe is not geared;
Understanding is never neared.
Opher – 25.8.2022
Given the amazing size of the universe and the tininess of our brains it’s incredible that we understand any of it.
In the past we created religions and gods to make sense of what we fail to understand.
We’d rather believe in mysticism than reality.
Yet the universe has enough wonder without us creating layers more.
Life is miraculous enough without us imagining unreal layers.
We are no different to the ant, bacterium, moth or duckweed.
Women, Life, Freedom. (For Mahsa Amini & the women of Iran)
There’s a tragedy going on in Iran. The misogynistic fascist religious zealots are crushing the life out of brave young women and men.
The media carnival has moved on as they are being shot, beaten and imprisoned by ruthless old men and their mindless goons.
Women, Life, Freedom. (For Mahsa Amini & the women of Iran)
Women Life Freedom!!
We cut our hair
Throw off our chains.
They beat us.
They kill us
But the will remains!
Incredible bravery
In the face of death!!
We oppose injustice
With every breath!!
A regime of terror
In the name of God.
Enforced with violence –
Gun, gas and rod.
We stand together
For a better life!
The cry for Regime change
Is becoming rife!
Women Life Freedom!!
Equality for all!!
Fighting for our lives
With our backs against the wall!!
Opher 5.10.2022
The brave women of Iran are standing up against the authoritarian, misogynistic, regime based on terror and repression.
The zealots of extremism are not content to have their own views of religion; they have to impose it on others!!
This misogynistic philosophy comes screaming out of the bowels of the Dark Ages, from tribal nomadic Arabs intent on suppressing women.
These tyrants wish to shackle half the world’s population in sackcloth and masks.
It’s time everybody rose up and demands equality!!
Down with tyrants!!
Down with evil purveyors of terror and oppression!!
The nutters of God need putting back in their box!!
Solidarity with the fearless women of Iran!!
Mahsa Amini lives!!
Poetry – TV Evangelist
TV Evangelist
With his hand upon the TV
He invokes Jesus and the scriptures,
Inviting the faithful followers
To join him in his raptures.
Fighting with the demons
He drives Covid from the sick.
All you have to do
Is present him with a cheque.
He drives in his limo
To his mansion on the hill.
Then to his waiting learjet
Servants tending to his will.
He wears the most expensive suits
And eats like a king.
In the business converting lost souls
Who’ll give him everything.
Preying on the stupid
Who all their lives did toil.
He’s the holy moly charlatan
The purveyor of snake oil.
Opher – 31.8.2020
It is quite incredible how these poor American fools have sent in their money to these charlatans and frauds and turned them into multimillionaires.
Talk about gullible.
But these people are positively dangerous. They are encouraging silly practices.
You don’t cure Covid through faith and certainly not by touching your TV screen and receiving the healing power from a snake-oil salesman who then asks for a handsome contribution.